Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi has become a boxing promoter and will make her Las Vegas debut as a promoter on Saturday night. / Theo Wargo, Getty Images

by Bob Velin, USA TODAY Sports

by Bob Velin, USA TODAY Sports

Nicole Polizzi, better known as Snooki, the drama queen of MTV's Jersey Shore, has thrown her hat into the ring and become a boxing promoter.

She and her father, Andy Polizzi, represent fighter Patrick Hyland, a featherweight who hails from Dublin and fights on the undercard of the Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez welterweight extravaganza Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.

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